There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

but it's just like a time when they really took the care to look at how to construct things.

但它代表了一个时期，那时他们真正关注搞建筑的方法。

我喜欢的建筑物 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The surprise visit came at a time when the United States and other countries have been putting more pressure on North Korea.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

At a time when beards meant a great deal religiously, he's telling the men to shave off their beards.

在当时人们把大胡子当做虔诚的象征,彼得却叫人把胡子都刮了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Is that writer living at a time when Native Americans are still living in Connecticut or owning Connecticut?

作者是否能找到,美国土著人还住在康涅狄格州的时候？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I'm from Livingston,Tennessee. Thanksgiving at my family was always a time when brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles,cousins, we all got together.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For example,she wore men's pants as clothing at a time when women wore only skirts or dresses.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

In an effort to get more to keep the economy from collapsing at a time when at a time of great concern about the structure of the financial system.

在一种得到更多的努力中,预防经济在一种时期中崩溃，这个时期是,人们都很担忧,金融系统的结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He called it "the height of irresponsibility" at a time when they were asking taxpayers for help.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Otherwise,he said, there might come a time when an angry public would demand radical and sweeping changes.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Tell us about a time when you have tried to solve one problem but unexpectedly produced another.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

We normally think of teaching as a synchronic process, you and I are in the same place and in the same time while we are learning, when in fact at least right now we are not.

我们通常设想教学是限于一时的过程，你我在同一地点,同一时间学习，但事实上至少现在就不是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And by the time I'm a million, I no longer remember what I was doing when I was a lad of 500,000.

等我活到一百万年，我不记得,50万年前做过什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ted Kooser says there was a time when poetry was a usual feature in newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

They had a certain time and date when the world was going to end.

他们相信在某个时间某个地点,世界末日就会出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She wrote important stories at a time when women had few social or political rights.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

And concomitantly a second reason is that that Civil Rights revolution also brought, through its process, a huge discovery at the same time of Northern racism, when Martin Luther King brought the movement to Chicago and nearly got killed doing it.

还有第二个理由就是,民权运动的经过也带来了一个大发现,那就是北方的种族主义,当马丁路德金把运动带到了芝加哥,他差点因此丧命

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The window was boarded up. No one could remember a time when it was not.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

电影里的中央车站 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Faulkner has been accused of looking back to a time when life was better.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

One time, I paid a beggar when I was driving in my car and I was stopped to the stoplight,

有一次，我给过乞丐钱，当时我在开车，正在等红灯，

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Plays about rulers like Henry the Fourth and Richard the Third explore Britain's history during a time when the country was going through tense political struggles.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Why don't we have you, when the time comes, raise your hand if you're supposed to be representing a one?

为什么让家上来呢，如果你代表1，就举起你的手？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children, by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.

所以，他用一种方式去怀念，渴望去这群人还是孩子时，生活过的地方，渴望经历那种时光，也渴望成为他们之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选